Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Or maybe, if crafters in the west (I heard it's less of an issue on JP servers) would stop charging absurd premiums, botting would not be so lucrative in the first place...

Considering that these items take less than 5 minutes of actual playtime to gather, I'd consider them quite profitable (Scuro and Chirao aren't must much anymore because they are for low level items).

So please... forgive me if I can't be up in arms about us gatherers no longer being able to charge 50-100K for an item that is utterly trivial to obtain.
Please don't try to justify cheating with crafters overcharging. Even on Balmung with its vicious undercutting,there are bots.

World Visit is also leading to the standardization of prices across the data centre although at the cost of gathering bots now having access to more customers.

For botters, even if they sell a gathered item from a timed node for less than 10 gil per item, it's still pure profit.

Secondly, if it's so trivial to obtain gathered items, why don't more people gather themselves?

The premium that is being paid for legitimate gatherers is for their time while others are doing other content.

In short,cheaters gonna cheat. Not even talking about the gil sellers but I've met players who have admitted they use bots because gathering is too tedious/grindy.

As if grindiness is an excuse to cheat.

SE needs to takes drastic actions like perma banning/deleting every single account that uses botting.